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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Fort Worth, Texas - A Collection of Photos
Below is a book on Shutterfly that we just put together of a few of the photos around Fort Worth taken in Year 2012.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Photo Walk and Scavenger Hunt
We participated in a Photo Walk and Scavenger Hunt with Legacy Studios. This started first with lunch at Legacy Studios in Keller. Afterward, we were given a map with boundary lines (which was basically all of downtown Fort Worth) and a list of photos to shoot for the scavenger hunt. We had approximately 3 hours to shoot photos. The scavenger list certainly made the trip more interesting as a few of the items were: take a photo of yourself with a stranger, a photo of graffiti (there is none in downtown Fort Worth), a photo of yourself on a motorcycle, a photo of someone doing a good deed, etc.
The scavenger hunt photos were for fun and not judged for quality or composition. The other "real" photos are to be judged for competition. We submit 3 photos, all of which must be "straight out of the camera". These will then be placed on a website for voting.
Below are some of our shots from the outing. Of course, we have done some post-processing to these so they are not considered SOOC (straight out of the camera).
The scavenger hunt photos were for fun and not judged for quality or composition. The other "real" photos are to be judged for competition. We submit 3 photos, all of which must be "straight out of the camera". These will then be placed on a website for voting.
Below are some of our shots from the outing. Of course, we have done some post-processing to these so they are not considered SOOC (straight out of the camera).
Monday, January 30, 2012
Take a Photo Every Day for a Year
We have heard and read about how much your photos will improve when you start taking a photo every day for a year. It's a big undertaking but we are expecting big payoffs at the end of the year. We are expecting to become better photographers.
We joined a website called 365Project. By taking a photo every day, we expect to learn our camera's limits, get better at composition and lighting, and become more creative with our photos. At least, that's our hopes.
There are several key things we need to do:
1) Keep our cameras handy. Take them with us, ready to shoot, whenever we can. Of course, that's not always possible but we both now have IPhones so we can always use the phone camera if needed.
2) Think about a theme. This one is a little harder starting out. A theme could be something to document what we have done that day, new people we have met, smiles, colors...just about anything.
3) Tell a story with our photo. Think about why we are taking the photo and will others appreciate why we took the photo.
4) Keep shooting....don't stop. There will be times we are busy or just don't think there is anything interesting to take a photo of. We'll have to make ourselves get out, take a walk, go to the park, something. But just take a picture. Don't skip a single day without taking a picture.
5) Post our photos. We'll be posting on the website www.365project.org. This one is easy for us as we both like to come home and upload our photos to our computers as soon as we can.
If you have some free time, check out the 365Project and see what you think. Who knows, maybe you'll join us in this endeavor.
Below are some of our first pictures.
We joined a website called 365Project. By taking a photo every day, we expect to learn our camera's limits, get better at composition and lighting, and become more creative with our photos. At least, that's our hopes.
There are several key things we need to do:
1) Keep our cameras handy. Take them with us, ready to shoot, whenever we can. Of course, that's not always possible but we both now have IPhones so we can always use the phone camera if needed.
2) Think about a theme. This one is a little harder starting out. A theme could be something to document what we have done that day, new people we have met, smiles, colors...just about anything.
3) Tell a story with our photo. Think about why we are taking the photo and will others appreciate why we took the photo.
4) Keep shooting....don't stop. There will be times we are busy or just don't think there is anything interesting to take a photo of. We'll have to make ourselves get out, take a walk, go to the park, something. But just take a picture. Don't skip a single day without taking a picture.
5) Post our photos. We'll be posting on the website www.365project.org. This one is easy for us as we both like to come home and upload our photos to our computers as soon as we can.
If you have some free time, check out the 365Project and see what you think. Who knows, maybe you'll join us in this endeavor.
Below are some of our first pictures.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Our Move to the Digital SLR World of Photography
We have recently moved into the Digital SLR world and have been taking classes and attending seminars to learn to shoot better photos. Our photos are grouped by category on the right side of the page. Please take a few minutes and view them. Feel free to leave comments on how we are doing.
As members of two local photography clubs, The Trinity Arts Photo Club in Bedford and the Bob Jones Nature Center Camera Club in Southlake, we are building new friendships and receiving some needed constructive criticism on our photos. We may never be professional photographers but we are getting better with every picture we take.
The Trinity Arts Photo Club has a monthly competition for its members. There is a set topic each month and we try to always submit photos. These are judged by a professional photographer and their critique is given at the monthly meeting. Currently, we are in the Beginner group. Awards are given for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable Mention. Each award carries with it a certain number of points and once enough points have been accumulated, that photographer will move from the Beginner group to the Advanced group. Not that she wants to or feels ready but Lynne will be moving to the Advanced group in January 2012.
The Bob Jones Nature Center Camera Club is a little less formal and meets twice monthly. Our first meeting of the month is a critique session of photos that members have submitted. Usually, these are photos that were taken at one or more of the BJNC field trips. The second meeting discusses different topics, ie. indoor and outdoor lighting, HDR processing, etc. We are learning lots of new techniques and are trying to put some of them into practice.
We do not have a lot of knowledge yet when it comes to post-processing our photos. Currently, we pretty much just hit the "auto adjust" button and that's a good start. But there is so much more you can do with photos today with the right software. With that being said, we have been taking some classes at Tarrant County College as well as some short seminars here and there.
We hope you enjoy viewing our photos. Just click the links to the Pages on the right side of the page.
If photos just aren't quite enough for you, there is a link to Our Cycling Blog on the right side of the page listed under Links We Like. Check it out if you have time.
As members of two local photography clubs, The Trinity Arts Photo Club in Bedford and the Bob Jones Nature Center Camera Club in Southlake, we are building new friendships and receiving some needed constructive criticism on our photos. We may never be professional photographers but we are getting better with every picture we take.
The Bob Jones Nature Center Camera Club is a little less formal and meets twice monthly. Our first meeting of the month is a critique session of photos that members have submitted. Usually, these are photos that were taken at one or more of the BJNC field trips. The second meeting discusses different topics, ie. indoor and outdoor lighting, HDR processing, etc. We are learning lots of new techniques and are trying to put some of them into practice.
We do not have a lot of knowledge yet when it comes to post-processing our photos. Currently, we pretty much just hit the "auto adjust" button and that's a good start. But there is so much more you can do with photos today with the right software. With that being said, we have been taking some classes at Tarrant County College as well as some short seminars here and there.
We hope you enjoy viewing our photos. Just click the links to the Pages on the right side of the page.
If photos just aren't quite enough for you, there is a link to Our Cycling Blog on the right side of the page listed under Links We Like. Check it out if you have time.
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